Straw spreader



March 31 1931. w, s 1,798,389

STRAW SPREADER Filed April 24. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l I P H A 4'- xii/ m gmentoz March 31, 1931. w BRZlNSKi 7 1,793,189

STRAW SPREADER Filed April 24, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mar. 31, 1931 FHUNITED STATES PATENT oF-PFICE Applieation file'd April 24, 1928. seria1n .272,4e3. v

The invention relates to straw spreaders 1 Figure 3 isa vertical transverse sectional and has for its object to provide a device of View taken-on line 3-3-of Figure 1. this character wherein rotatable spreading Figure 4 is vertical transverse sectional mechanism is disposed at the rear end of the view taken on line 44 of Figure 1.

.5 body and driven from the ground engaging Figure 5 is a side elevation of the spreader, 55, wheels and the body provided with an endless part of the wheel being broken away to betconveyor driven from the ground engaging ter showthe structure. wheels and forming means whereby straw F lgure 6 is .a rear elevation of the spreader. may be fed rearwardly to the rotatable Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 10 spreaders as desired for spreading purposes. designates the body of the spreader and 2 an A further object isto provide controllable endless conveyor forming the bottom of the clutch means whereby the spreading mechabody, and on which straw rests. In operanism and the body conveyor may be operated tion the body 1 is filled with material and is as desired. fed rearwardly" by mechanism hereinafter 15 A further object is to mount the spreader Set r h. The conveyor 2 slides on the botarms on vertically disposed shafts, the lower tom'3 as clearly shown in Figure 2, and-exends of which are provided with gear contends over sprockets 4 at the front and rear nections with a transversely disposed shaft ends of the body and which sprockets are disposed beneath the body and driven from carried by transverselydisposed shafts 5 20 the ground engaging wheels, and positioned beneath the body 'where they willnot be whereby the gears will be protected from oome'clogged with material. It will be noted straw during the operation thereof. that only the upper side ofthe endless con- A further object is to provide the spreader veyor GXPOSBd t the material and the 0parms with forks, the forks of one vertical rating parts are protec ed fr m e material 25 shaft being out of registration with the forks i o -O their location beneath the body. of the other shaft. Extending downwardly from the body at A further object is to rotatably mount the opposite sides thereof are brackets 6, in which axle, and to provide the axle with driving brackets'is rotatably mounted an axle 7. The sprockets rotatably mounted thereon and outer ends of the axle 7 are provided with 30 having driving connection with the conveyor ground engaging. wheels 8, which are seand spreader mechanism and to slidably cured to the axle, for instance by pins 9, mount clutch elements on'the axle, and to whereby as the spreader moves "over the provide means whereby said clutch element ground the axle will rotate. Rotatably may be moved into and out of engagement mounted onone end of the axle 7 is a sprocket 85. with clutch elements carried by the sprockets. 10 having a female clutch element 11, and

With the above and other objects in View extending over the sprocket 10 and over a the invention resides in the combination and sprocket 13, carried by an idle gear 14 is a arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, sprocket chain 15, and the idle gear l lmeshes shown in the drawings, described and with a gear 16 carried by the conveyor shaft claimed, it being understood that changes in 5, therefore it will be'seen that when the slidthe precise embodiment of the invention may ably keyed male clutch element 17' is in be made within the scope of what is claimed clutched engagement with the clutch'element without departing from the spirit of the in- 11,the sprocket 10 will'rotate with the shaft'7,

vention. thereby imparting-rotation to the idle gear 45 In the drawings: 14, the gear16 and the shaft 5 for operating Figure l is a top plan view of the straw the endless convey-or whereby it will move in spreader. thedirection ofthe arrow'a, Figure 2 for Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional feeding material rearwardly towards spreadview through the rear end of the spreader ing mechanism hereinafter set forth. 5 taken on line 22 of Figure 1. Mounted on the other end of the axle 7 and rotatable thereon is a sprocket 18 having a clutch element 19 and which sprocket 18 is controlled by a sl idably keyed clutch element 20 whereby the sprocket 18 may be locked to rotate with the shaft 7 or allowed to stand still during the rotation of the shaft 7 for operating as desired the spreader mechanism. Extending over the sprocket 18 is a sprocket chain 21, which sprocket chain extends rearwardly and over the sprocket 22 carried by the transversely disposed shaft 23 located beneath the body and supported in brackets 2 1, depending from the body. Shaft 23 has mounted thereon bevel gears 25, which bevel gears mesh with bevel 'gea rs26 carried by the vertically disposed shafts 27 which extend through the bottom 3 of the body and have their upper ends supported by brackets 30 extending rearwardly an-d inwardly from the upper edges of the sides 31 of the body. Mounted on the verticallydisposed shafts 27 are collars 32 having radially disposed arms 33, the ends of which terminate in forks 34:, and it will be noted that the arms and forks of the shafts 27 are out of registration whereby they can overlap during their rotation. The arms 33 and forks 34 move in a horizontal plane during the operation of the device, and as the device moves forwardly over the ground the forks; Will dig the straw from the rear end ofthe load and will spread the same overtheground to the rear of the spreader, and the operator during the advancing of the spreader controls the clutch elements 17 and 20 for spreading as desired and for feeding additional straw rearwardly towards the spreading element, thereforeit will be seen that clogging of the device ,will bepreventedand the spreading may be positively controlled. It, will be noted that the driving mechanismfor the spreader element is disposed beneath the body, consequently protected from accumulation of straw.

. Pivotally mounted at opposite sides of the body 1 at 35 are bell crank levers 36, to which are connected forwardly extending rods 37 the forward ends of which are connected to control levers 38, withineasy reach of the operator whereby the operator can positively control the operation of the" endless conveyor as well as the spreading mechanism at all times. V

From the above it will be seen thata straw spreading machine is provided, whichjis simple in construction, positive in its opera} tion, provided with means whereby the feeding conveyor or the spreading mechanism may be simultaneously operated or. inclependentlyoperated, as desired, and all: of the working parts of gear and shaft type are positioned beneath the body or to the sides.

thereof Wherethey will be out of contact with the straw, consequently will not become clogged with straw. during the spreading operation, a r V The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is A straw spreader comprising a body having its rear end open, a bottom carried by said body and extending beyond the rear open end of the body, the upper side of said bottom being in substantiall thesame plane for its entire length, a feeding conveyor beneath the bottom of the body, the upper flight of said feeding conveyor slidably engaging the upper side of the bottom for the entire length of said flight, sprockets beneath the bottom of the body and extending signature.

WALTER BRZINSKI. 

